FOOKES, Ursula

British (1906 – 1991)

Mining Town #1, ca. 1930

Color linocut. Edition of 50. Signed and numbered 3/50 in pencil.

9 ⅝  x  11 ⅜  inches    |    24.4  x  28.9 cm

Mining Town #1 is Ursula Fookes‘ most accomplished and sought-after print and is one of many featuring a mining town in South Wales, Rhondda.  It is compelling for its composition with rhythmic, repetitive curves and also for its social commentary on the miners’ bleak existence in tract lodgings.

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